Eat Me Here’s the anatomy of a perfect salad: an inch-thick slab from a purplish-red, grapefruit-sized heirloom tomato, bathed in peppery olive oil, perched on a meaty hunk of buffalo mozzarella and fi ...   More

Eat Me During the summer of 1996, I waited tables at one of the country’s 614 Olive Garden restaurants to pay for beer and college. At the OG, everything comes with a free refill and a smile. And the a ...   More

Eat Me I thought I was an expert on all things Portland until I met a fast-talking New Yorker one Friday in Pioneer Courthouse Square. In four hours, David Schargel told me things I never knew, like how to ...   More

Eat Me For Robert Reynolds, the basis of a good culinary education starts and ends where people eat together. So it’s no surprise that the focal point of the PDX-based food educator and former restaura ...   More

Eat Me IKEA’s July grand opening brought more than right-angled furniture to Portland living rooms. It also delivered its famously salty, straight-from-the-package Swedish meatballs to its busy in-stor ...   More

Eat Me This column was inspired by a recent email to WW: "Hello, my name is Tony. As a pizza freak, I always defended Apizza Scholls as the best in Portland. Last night I ate at a new restaurant called Wildf ...   More

Eat Me Portland is the new L.A. Don't panic—take a look at three new faces in PDX kitchens to see what I mean: Until three months ago, Ten01's (1001 NW Couch St., 226-3463) Jack Yoss was executive ch ...   More

Eat Me Lupa (3955 N Mississippi Ave., 287-5872) is my favorite Portland bar that almost wasn't. Rose City-area native Amanda Prock had fancied opening her North Mississippi Avenue wine-centric bodega and bot ...   More

Eat Me You never forget eating your first ear. The initial bite takes gumption, but at least the thin slices at Wing Wa BBQ King (2788 SE 82nd Ave., 771-1848) don't look like ears—they could be exotic ...   More

Eat Me Don't think for a minute that a Communist revolutionary can't sell a burrito. When a Fourth of July hot dog hangover led me to veg haven Laughing Planet, I didn't expect a political awakening. I just ...   More